Sarah Lutkenhaus

Gucci Mane smiles a lot for a man who has been arrested six times, served numerous jail sentences, and spent two years in a maximum security prison.
He stands in front of a red velvet curtain draped so finely it looks a baroque painting, and he raps into a 1950s style broadcast microphone with a long stem. “I feel like one of the Temptations,” he says with a coy laugh. Several feet over his shoulder, Zaytoven...

It’s immediately clear that Lea Bertucci doesn’t spend much time on the surface of things. In telling me about playing the saxophone, she casually mentions that, “They were invented in the 1880s, so they got a lot of the kinks worked out that clarinets never quite had.” She dives deep on every subject we touch on, from the history of her home town, to Star Trek, to the lineage of multiple art movements. Her interests stretch beyond...

"In my ten plus years as a working musician, I've been told time and time again that I would be more successful if I were quieter, more mysterious, less aggressive, less assertive," Hether Fortune tells me.
It's counterintuitive to think that the quieter a musician is, the more they are exalted by the music industry, but it’s something Wax Idols’ front woman, Hether Fortune, has been battling for a decade. Since 2011, she has released...

A steady stream of light reaches into Hannah Jewett's home studio—it makes the silver chains suspended on the wall, the geometric shapes stacked in clear bins, and the panels of lucite in various compositions, gleam. It's a minimal space, but all of the objects within it are striking and confident. Jewett describes herself as an accessories, clothing, and lifestyle designer that just left her full time job to keep up with the jewelry orders that have been...